The Premier League can be a cruel mistress for head coaches.

The simple fact of the matter is that managing in England's top-flight is one of the most stressful jobs around, even if it does come with the handsome benefits of monster wages and working with the world's best players.

After all, the inescapable reality of Premier League managers is that more than a quarter of the cohort that starts each season won't be in the same technical area when the next campaign rolls around.

The reality for Premier League managers

The 2021/22 campaign alone saw Xisco Munoz, Steve Bruce, Nuno Espirito Santo, Daniel Farke, Dean Smith, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Rafael Benitez, Claudio Ranieri, Marcelo Bielsa and Sean Dyche all given the boot.

By Transfermarkt's calculations, the Premier League average since its 1992 inception comes in at an eye-watering eight managerial changes per season during the campaign itself.

As such, whether you agree with it or not, we've got to go into the 2022/23 season with the assumption that at least a quarter of the current 20 managers will either be sacked or amicably part ways.

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Sackings in the Premier League

And seeing as we're knee-deep into our 2022/23 Premier League predictions already, we couldn't help wondering which managers won't be in the job that they're currently inhabiting come the start of pre-season next year.

In other words, we're not just referring to mid-season sackings, but also the not-too-uncommon circumstance where club and manager decide to go their separate ways at the end of term.

Now, it's important to note that this is just the opinion of your humble GIVEMESPORT writer in tune with the predictions we've already made, so we could well be miles off with our forecast. Predicting the Premier League is, after all, nigh on impossible.

And don't think for one second that we actually want anybody to lose their job.

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Frankly, it's criminal that calling for managers to be sacked has become so trivialised at the top of the men's game and if all 20 coaches make it to May 2023, then we'll be absolutely delighted to have been proven wrong.

Which Premier League managers will leave their jobs?

But when the yearly statistics and historical records are as damning as they are, it's not something we can ignore, so here are the seven managers that we suspect will be moving on across the 2022/23 season:

1. Marco Silva

Nobody's reading this prediction and thinking that I'm a renegade footballing hipster, but the argument for Silva being the first Premier League manager to go this season extends far beyond Fulham's potential to panic.

With major signings like João Palhinha, Bernd Leno and Andreas Pereira coming through the door, Fulham have given Silva very little in the way of excuses to learn from the mistakes of the 2018/19 and 2020/21 relegations.

Marry that to the pressure on the Cottagers to stop their constant yo-yoing between divisions and I wouldn't be surprised if the club tries to consolidate their Premier League status by hook or by cook, and at Silva's expense.

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2. Ralph Hasenhüttl

Saints fans were growing tireder than ever with life under Hasenhüttl as they concluded their 2021/22 season on a whimper, losing nine of their last 12 Premier League games to suggest that the Austrian's four-year tenure was dying a death.

Southampton have bravely invested in youth this summer and the club does have a brilliant record of proving me wrong, but this season looks like the year where relegation could truly loom and therefore encourage a change of direction.

I can definitely picture the Saints saying: 'enough is enough now,' to Hasenhüttl around the Christmas period, before shaking things up as a roll of the dice to avoid a Championship return.

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3. Thomas Tuchel

Something just doesn't feel right at Chelsea, does it? My crystal ball and tea leaves are telling me that the Blues are in for a tough season with their uneven, blunt-tipped squad that's carrying far too much deadwood.

I can just picture the vultures circling around Tuchel's head as the goals prove hard to come by, Raheem Sterling doesn't hit the ground running, Marc Cucurella doesn't actually play much and the top four slips out of reach.

Now, if Roman Abramovich was still in the boardroom, then I'd feel pretty certain about this prediction, so the only caveat here is that Todd Boehly might deliberately go against type at Chelsea by backing the coach through thick and thin.

But there's a big part of me that either sees Chelsea showing Tuchel the door around March time or agreeing that now is the time to divorce when the season ends.

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4. Jesse Marsch

By far and away the suggestion that I'm most torn on because I can picture Marsch's first full season at Elland Road going one of two ways and nothing in between: an unmitigated disaster flirting with the relegation zone or a runaway success competing for a place in Europe.

For me, it all comes down to whether or not the likes of Luis Sinisterra, Brenden Aaronson and Marc Roca can plug the gaps left by Raphinha and Kalvin Phillips, and if Marsch can - simply put - stop the team conceding so many goals.

Call it guttural, call it instinctive, but I just suspect a slow start to the season and winter woes leaving the club with second thoughts about Marsch's suitability as the man to take Leeds forward.

5. Scott Parker

At the end of the day, every man and their dog is not only predicting Bournemouth to suffer relegation, but to finish rock bottom, so there's good reason to think, as a consequence, that the Cherries will instigate a late-season panic sacking.

Maybe I'm wrong and it's not in their playbook having stood by Eddie Howe in 2019/20, but Parker doesn't have as much credit in the bank as the current Newcastle United boss did and his expansive football could well be found out again in the top-flight.

Something just tells me that the allure of sacking Parker to grab, say, Sean Dyche will be too strong if Bournemouth are staring down the barrel of relegation come March or April.

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6. Bruno Lage

Right, imagine that we've now made it to the end of the season, because there's no way that Wolves will be so unsteady in 2022/23 that we'll see the trigger pulled on Lage unexpectedly.

Rather, I'm anticipating a consistent struggle for Wolves over the next nine months as they put all their goalscoring eggs in the Hwang Hee-chan basket amid Raul Jimenez's fitness problems as well as a likely dip in their defensive solidity as soon as Jose Sa's purple patch loses steam.

Lage is a top, top manager who can definitely bag himself other Premier League jobs, but I sadly envisage a world where Wolves finish 13th with very few goals to their name, prompting the club to switch things up after the final game.

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7. Brendan Rodgers

It feels like the 2022/23 season is now or ever for the Rodgers era to get back on its feet with the surprisingly favourable label of 'eighth place' papering over a lot of the cracks last season - and we expect things to go from bad to worse this year.

Rodgers and clubs tend to part ways around this sort of time in his tenure and on the back of a year where we're tipping them to finish 11th thanks in no small part to a shocking transfer window, it could well prove to be the case again.

I can definitely see a world where Leicester and Rodgers decide to call time on their relationship next summer with a 'no hard feelings' and 'thanks for the memories' sort of vibe to the divorce.

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No Frank Lampard

Now, the most notable absentee is Mr. Frank Lampard because every football fan with a pulse seems to be tipping the Chelsea icon to be sacked during his first full season at Goodison Park.

And don't get it twisted, I'm not blind to the fact that Everton could well be drawn into a relegation dog fight that sees them plunge down to the Championship, but yours truly doesn't see it playing out like that.

Rather, I'm in the school of thought that Lampard is a much better coach than he's made out to be and that the quality of the Toffees' transfer business, particularly if they sign Idrissa Gueye, has actually been overlooked by many.

You can find out more about why I'm tipping Everton to enjoy a better season than predicted here, but just hold fire with the pelters until the season actually plays out.

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And like we say, there's nothing to make light of when it comes to people losing their jobs whether it's Premier League management or not, so hopefully each of these seven managers get what they want just as we foresee Lampard doing.

It's a tough, tough arena in the English top-flight and if these under-pressure coaches can prove me wrong, then I'll be the first person to stand up and applaud, because they all deserve our respect for even taking on the challenge in the first place.

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